The culinary writer Simone Ortega has died at 89 years of age. The author converted into the big protagonist of the pass Barcelona Degusta, where an emotional homage to her trajectory success, giving her the Prize Foods of Spain, was carried out for the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Seaside Areas.

The writer Simone Ortega, author of the famous book 1080 recipes, the pass morning in 89 years in the residence from Madrid in which lived, as they have confirmed nearby sources in the family, has died.

Barcelona Degusta 2007, the Consumer Food Show organized by Alimentaria Exhibitions, was marked by the close homage to the culinary writer more read and published in language Spanish, Simone Ortega,. The author of 1.080 recipes received the Food Prize of Spain granted for the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Seaside Areas. Although the delicate health of the author did not allow her to attend the event, was her daughter Inés Ortega who picked up the Prize in her name. The candidature was promoted by the organization of the fair.

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Born in Barcelona in May of 1919, Simone Ortega started to become interested in the cooking at inexperienced age. She started to write recipes for suggestion of her second husband José Ortega Spottorno -founding of El País-. This saw possibilities commercial in a book of this class. For this she used a notebook with many recipes of her grandmother and three years to finish their elaboration. She never wrote a recipe that she herself did not experience. She made it everything, from to go to the market to buy the products, until prepares the dishes in the kitchen and decorates them.

This first book published it in 1972 under the title 1.080 recipes, that in the present brings more than 3,5 million sold and that are one of the books more read in Spanish language after the Bible and the Quijote. In 1.080 recipes is taught how to cooking, for example the quiche that she introduced into many shops and homes, covering the daily needs and those of special occasions, from the simplest in some refined recipes of the French cuisine.

Mother of three sons, belonged to the Spanish Fraternity of the Good Table. In 1987 she received the Special Prize of Gastronomy, in 2003 she was appointed Knight of the Arts and the Letters of the French Republic by her contribution to the diffusion of the French gastronomy in Spain.

From Alimentaria Exhibitions we regret deeply this heard loss and we share the pain of the family of Simone Ortega. Rest in peace.

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